Yes: House moves to DUMP another Obama travesty…

One of the most fundamental rights we have as Americans is the right to bear arms, to own weapons that will enable us to defend our lives and property from thieves and tyrants who would like to take from us what they have not earned for themselves.

Unfortunately, the last eight years we’ve had a totally anti-gun president in office who worked diligently with the left to infringe on those rights whenever humanly possible.

The Obama administration managed to pass VA regulations that kept some veterans from being able to own firearms, but that is now being chucked in the trash.

According to The Washington Free Beacon, The House of Representatives passed a bill last Thursday to amend the process used to determine whether a veteran receiving benefits from the Veterans Administration should be denied their gun rights.

The Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act would change the process the VA uses to determine which of its beneficiaries are mentally incompetent in a way that disqualifies them from owning firearms. The bill would require a finding by a judge or other judicial authority that the veteran is a danger to himself or others before stripping his gun rights.

The bill would roll back a regulation implemented by the VA under former President Barack Obama that required the agency to report individuals who use a representative payee to handle their financial affairs to the FBI’s background check system and ban them from purchasing firearms.

The rule resulted in hundreds of thousands of veterans being prohibited from owning firearms. Ninety-nine percent of the names in the FBI’s database of “mentally defective” individuals were veterans reported by the VA as a result of the rule.

Republicans criticized the regulation throughout the Obama administration as an infringement of veterans’ due process and gun rights.

Now that Republicans control every branch of the federal government, they aim to add due process protections they claim were missing from the Obama-era regulation.

“I strongly believe we must do everything in our power to protect the rights guaranteed to all Americans, especially the men and women who have served, by the Constitution,” said Rep. Phil Roe (R., Tenn.), the main sponsor of the legislation, in a statement. “The Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act does just that. I’m proud to stand with my colleagues in passing this important legislation that ensures no veteran who utilizes a fiduciary will lose their second amendment rights without due process.”

Any legislation geared toward shrinking the size of the federal government, reducing regulations, and protects our constitutional rights is always a step in the right direction.

The government’s job isn’t to prevent people from owning firearms, but to ensure that right exists, after all, it does say “shall not be infringed.”

Veterans especially deserve to have the means necessary to protect themselves, having given so much of themselves to our nation.

Lieutenant Colonel West served 22 years in the United States Army and was elected to serve in the United States Congress in 2010. Allen is a Fox News Contributor and author of Guardian of the Republic: An American Ronin’s Journey to Faith, Family and Freedom.